BY L. ROD WAY. 117 



Lepiduzia setiformis, De Xo^ — Dark brown, slender 

 lower branches often long and flagellate. Leaves sym- 

 metric remote squaiTose broadly obcuneate from a narrow 

 subtransverse insertion, mostly 0.5 mm. long, quadrifid to 

 or below the middle, lobes widely diverging often a short 

 spinous tooth on the margin, base of the lobes 2-4 cells wide 

 rapidly narrow^ing to a 1-celled spinous apex 4-5 cells 

 long; cells of base 18 fj.., verrucosa, those of the lobes 

 mostly 60 x 20 ju., minutely striate. Underleaves similar. 



Mt. Welling 



S. America. 



Mt. Wellington. West Coast. 



Lepidozia f/ro.'^si-^rfa, Sf. — Robust, bright green, in 

 dense mats. Leaves imbricate piano-distichous rather 

 decurved, quadrifid to the middle, subvertically inserted 

 L4 mm. long, basal disk nearly quadrate, lobes erect setace- 

 ous and uniseriate above, the inner ones 4-celled at base, 

 the outer ones often 2-celled, sometimes all 2 or all 4- 

 celled; cells of the disk 75 x 40 ju,., those of the lobes up 

 to 120 fj..; underleaves smaller, lobes very slender, usually 

 uniseriate to the base. 



West Coast. Trowutta. 



Lepidozia niooreana, St. — Pale green or almost colour- 

 less, closely resembling a Tricliocolea, stems often 4-6 cm. 

 long, regiilarly pinnate. Stem leaves symmetric rather 

 crowded transverse, disk broadly obcuneate, 0.6 mm. broad, 

 0.3 mm. high, cells 70 x 30 /x.-, lobes usually 9-10 setaceous, 

 0.8 mm. long, uniseriate from a 2-celled base, cells 120 x 30 

 ytt.; underleaves smaller, usually 5-6 lobed, otherwise simi- 

 lar. Perianth 6 mm. cylindric, mouth fimbriate. 



West Coast. Hartz Mt. Cradle Mt. 



Lepidozia hrifolia, Tayl. — Seldom exceeding 5 mm.^ 

 irregularly branched. Leaves nearly transversely inserted, 

 asymmetric imbricate spreading strongly incurved, 0.3 long 

 and broad, l-3rd-| quadrifid, dorsal margin three times as 

 long as the ventral, dorsal lobe small, middle ones 0.1 mm. 

 long, broad, but acute, 7-8 cells broad at the base, 10-12 

 cells long; cells 16-20 ^. ; underleaves shorter, twice as 

 broad as the stem, quadrifid to the middle. Variable but 

 distinguishable from the other asymmetricae by the smaller 

 concave leaves. 



Very common. 



Lepidozia procera, Miff. — Stems 1-3 cm., branches de- 

 curved with long slender tips. Leaves remote and closely 

 appressed on the main stem, closer and patent on the 



